Vtg Stencil DIN fonts by Andreas Seidel
ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ 987-654-3210 THE GERMAN STANDARD TYPE The Vtg Stencil series of fonts from astype are based on real world stencils. The Vtg Stencil DIN fonts were devel- oped to made the most common stencil type of Germany available in digital type. Of course there are several, slightly different stencil designs from different manufactures in circulation, but all share the typical design of DIN type. DIN stands for “Deutsche Industrienorm” (German Industry Standard) and the DIN types have a long history. The core design was developed for descriptions of freight cars of Prussian state railways (1906). But the design became more and more popular and in 1936 it was issued as DIN 1451 – a draft template for designing type. It was used for traffic and street signs, house numbers, at the army and many more. Over the years the design changed a bit and was slightly modernized. Vtg Stencil DIN comes in many styles – Regular, Alt, Fabric, Halftone and Rough. The Alt style features older designs of letter “a” and figures “6” and “9”. Fabric, Halftone and Rough styles have an eroded, weathered look using up to four glyph variations of each letter. For an random effect an glyph rotator is programmed into the fonts opentype- code and applied by typing in opentype-savvy application. todays German DIN stencils
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Vtg Stencil DIN | typeface specimen www.astype.de | © 2016 Andreas Seidel Vtg Stencil DIN Functional Form & Expressive Design Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Sſs Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz ẞß :;!? # @ $€£ % 0123456789 69 āăą ćĉċč ęģįķ şșţž ←
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113 → 113 H2 → H2 H2 → H2
Tabular Figures Superscript Subscript 3/8 → 3/8 3/ → 3/ /8 → /8
Fractions Numerators Denominators Ş → Ș ¿A → ¿A ąēģø
Localized Forms Case Sensitive Forms Language Support
www.astype.de | © 2016 Andreas Seidel “… DIN is associated with things such as being accurate, striving for the perfect, and most of all: neutrality”
I Love Type Magazine, Volume 4 Albert-Jan Pool Regular vs Alt Font Styles
GermanyRegular 96
GermanyAlt 69
www.astype.de | © 2016 Andreas Seidel DIFFERENT SOURCES DIFFERENT TIMES — same route As you can see on the pictures, each stencil manufacturer did an slightly different DIN type design for their products. The differ- ences depend on stencil sizes and year of manufacture too.
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The weathered, eroded font styles Fabric, Rough and Halftone have an build in glyph rotator. Up to four variations are included for all base letters and figures. You have to turn on OpenType feature Contextual Alternatives to activate the glyph rota- organic cotton tor or you can choose variations manually by Sty- listic Sets. In Adobe InDesign feature Contextual Alternatives is on by default. light resistant screen printing
Vtg Stencil DIN | typeface specimen www.astype.de | © 2016 Andreas Seidel FABRIC STYLE EEEEEKKKKK RRRRRAAAAA
Vtg Stencil DIN | typeface specimen www.astype.de | © 2016 Andreas Seidel HALFTONE STYLE EEEEEKKKKK RRRRRAAAAA
Vtg Stencil DIN | typeface specimen www.astype.de | © 2016 Andreas Seidel ROUGH STYLE EEEEEKKKKK RRRRRAAAAA
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